New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-19
CANE KILLED By DIR. RAINSFORD.
HE DEFENDS HIMSELF AGAINST CRITIC.
A GLIMPSE AT HIS PICTURESQUE sTUDY-HOw
RE ARS ARE TRAPPED.

BEARS ARE TRAPPED.
Much interest has been excited article by
Archibald Rogers published in " The Forest and
Stream" rejecting upon the Rev. DR.. William s.
Rainsford, of ST. Georges Church, because of
alleged unsportsmanke conduct in trapping bears
during hunting tour the Far West, and the fur
ther Implication that the clergy man was guilty of o
violation OF the Revised Statutes OF the United States
In killing elk AMI dining upon elk steak in the
Yellows Park with the added destination that Dr.
Rainsford had also broken the Territorial laws by
shooting game out OF season. Taese accusations are
based upon DIR. kniDsiords paper in I" scrbner's
Magazine" ia which he relates lis experiences in
Chipping and Hunting on the Shoshone"
Ii DR.. Ranstord's accuser hal accompanied TRIB-
UNE reporter saturday evening in Is visit to the
study OF 81. Georges rectory in East Sxeenh-st be
would have iound little difficulty in asceraining that
the author OF the hunting perences the Shoshono
novice in the arts oil the sportsman The
gap NJ jaws aud eropus teeth OF hg grizzlys head
the eye the visitor he enters the hallway.
md the head OF a beautiful white taii-deer ornaments
the hatrack. where the hghiy-polished horns OF
Rocky NJ juntain sheep act as pegs. On every hand
are evidences OF the hunters skill and prOwess The
study Is well covered with huge Dear SKINS md
the 6aucerous-iooking heads OF four of hese beasts
of the forest, wonderfully nieke from the hand of
the taxdermist. pr0trnde from the study walls The
Immense antlers OF several elk stand out every
SIDE, and the rings OF twelve year "bigh0In
rests the Billiard repeating rifle winch brought down
most OF tins game. Two well worn hunting knives,
the rector's name, 10y. Various relics OF
fourteen grizzlies which have fallen before MN are
among his numerous trophies In the midst of them
all stood the rsctor. tail, slender, straight 1.-The
SNOWY not yet forty, qdck OF eye and agile OF move
ment.
at is nov nearly twenty years." SAID Dr. Rains.
ford, slice tell IN love with the Great West of
America l then stripping of seventeen and
lived nine months OF the years 1S67-63 camping and
huuing with the Indians, going through with them
from st. Paul to Vancouvers Islam. Every year
since then until This year have spent my vacations
IN the neigneorhooi of the Yellowstone. Few are
better acquainted with that section. What you see
here is but small part OF my acquisitions, Tor 1 have
gwen away great many to friends. Hun ing mas
always been my recreation. MIR. Rogers can know
little OF Hert Lake whea he locates IL IN the centre of
the National Park. Its southern edge is about six
piles from the boundary OF the park. He evidently
hasn't been there. Mr. Rogers adduces the fact that
nte elk steak in the park as evidence that | must
have killed II there. Here he betrays his ignorance
OF huntiI lite. No hunter is tool enough, unless
PEELED Starvation TO fresh elk steak IL Is not
IN a condition 10 eat under fortnight, every
knows who knows anyh hing about ii. The steak
In Yello wstobe Park from qua ter Uf an elk
that killed sixty miles west OF the park and had
dried in the and carried tor weeks never killed
game in the park. My hunting grounds lie esew here.
Now. to MIR Rogers's saarge OF cruelty to
bears. Ii Mr. Rogers were informed upon the qnes-
vernlin that all the Territories of the West
eight to ten dollars are offered reward for bear
sealps. II Mr. Rogers owned a farm in that country
he would know that IL Is 100 lats in tie day 10 raise
oucry about taxing bears in traps. Every mart in
every mink esery wildcat. every Ott@r every oeave
mnekrat. every TACT every fnr-Dear1ng
animal is caught in precisely similar traps. Secondly
ii Mr. Rogers had attentively read my small article
he would have learned that ont of a total OF twelve
besrs bagged by my party only two were taken III
trap ana eight were shot by yset in the open. In
tbiid place Mr. Rogers objects that rapDed bear
require the destruction OF game the trap must
be baited with II Mr.. Rogers had
either shot bear himself had Teen tern of nt
macy with tbo.e who have shot them, he would he
aware that least three put OF tive killed in the
early morning o. late In the evening by the hunter
who lies ia wait killed most oil mine
near the of elk. though mad the wonderful
luck kill four OF them at night when had made
prepare tions tor them.
AZ regards the taking of game out OF season, DR..
Ra.siurd said that he had er hunted elk
other hind OF game for sport out of season. People
out to hun. might suppose that
hunting party lived crackers ana cheese and woad
20 without meat wben they were hungry ana game
plentiful about thou. Still, DIR. Rainsford said
that THIS talk OF taking game out of princ
Pally tor the that spO tsmen did not
90 out until the legal arrived account OF the
1ies as well as other conditions WI ch OF themselves
would prevent it. Besides. tue heads coula OF he
brought cnt. which Of the principal OBJECTS
OF gong Criticisms OF this sort coming from peotle
IN te ignorance OF what they were talking about
ara, after all only laughabe. II Nj. Rogers any
other would be critic would 60 With him out be~ond
the Yellowstone next year. DR. Ransford said tn At he
VOL Id that he back emil htened all these
pvllts.